Georgia professor raises CROP funds year-round

Dr. Meg Gring Whitley, professor of French and Spanish, and long-time CROP Hunger Walk organizer for Young Harris College in Young Harris, Georgia, started a new CROP Hunger Walk last October at Lake Winfield Scott, where her husband, Rev. Fred Whitley, United Methodist Minister and Campus Minister at YHC, has a summer ministry.

This past fall at her urging, the college bookstore sold bags of Halloween candy, with all the proceeds benefiting the YHC CROP Hunger Walk. Dr. Gring Whitley’s 2007 efforts raised over $16,000 for the CWS/CROP mission, bringing her 17-year total to just over $129,000.